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Entrepreneurship in the region: Breeding ground for nascent enterpreneurs?
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizing employees and nascent …-up activity, strongly indicate that regions with strong tradition in entrepreneurship are a breeding ground for nascent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298504
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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Unternehmensgründungen von Ausländern in Deutschland: Einkommenseffekte und Implikationen für die Gründungslehre
Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp; Wagner, Marcus; … - 2009
entrepreneurship education perspective. We argue that there is a great potential for entrepreneurship education targeting foreigners. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600840
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601059
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Estimating labor supply in self-employment: Pitfalls and resolutions
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2017
The small extant literature on the working hours of self-employed workers is deficient, because it often lacks a clear theoretical underpinning and suffers from three common mistakes: including the hourly wage as an explanatory variable, controlling for input factors of production, and not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746662
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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being: Worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment
Binder, Martin - 2017
, focussing specifically on poor performance enterprises, a prevalent but disregarded type of entrepreneurship. Using German panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784004
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New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
Skriabikova, Olga; Dohmen, Thomas; Kriechel, Ben - 2014
This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that individuals could not observe what it is like to be self-employed. Since the intra-family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398269
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On the misery of losing self-employment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2014
German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers' satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421063
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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship
Block, Jörn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573647
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What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?
Rigolini, Jamele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573691